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Jul 5, 2012 · Ida M. Tarbell, c. 1904. Photo: Wikipedia. At the age of 14, Ida Tarbell witnessed the Cleveland Massacre, in which dozens of small oil producers in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, including her ...
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Mar 19, 2021 · Ida M. Tarbell’s name would become synonymous with the term muckraker after publication of her 19-part expose of the business practices of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company that had destroyed her father’s oil business, as well as many other small oil related companies in Pennsylvania’s oil region in the 1870s.
Jan 6, 2022 · Her study of Rockefeller’s practices as he built Standard Oil into one of the world’s largest business monopolies took many years to complete. McClure’s Magazine published it in 19 installments. Her work was a sensation and the installments became a two-volume book entitled, The History of the Standard Oil Company, published in 1904 ...
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a 1904 book by journalist Ida Tarbell. It is an exposé about the Standard Oil Company, run at the time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, the richest figure in American history. Originally serialized in nineteen parts in McClure's magazine, the book is a seminal example of muckraking, and inspired ...
- Ida Minerva. Tarbell
- 1904
Nov 27, 2016 · Between 1902 and 1904, Tarbell wrote a 19-part series for McClure magazine about the monopolizing powers of Standard Oil. Her series drew public attention and earned her the moniker of “muckraker.”. This 1915 photo shows John D. Rockefeller (76) and John D. Jr., (41), still going strong after Tarbell let the public know how powerful ...
Jul 17, 2023 · As a girl, she saw how Rockefeller and Standard Oil gamed the system and hurt independent manufacturers. And as an adult, Tarbell used her pen to fight back. Her 19-part exposé of Standard Oil’s backroom tactics came out between 1902 and 1904 and explained the oil industry’s machinations in easy-to-understand terms.
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May 15, 2012 · In the early 1900s, after Mr. Rockefeller had retired from Standard, the muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell published a series of articles in McClure’s magazine. The series portrayed Mr. Rockefeller and Standard Oil as ruthless and immoral, and the articles contributed to public outrage against Standard.
